THE MIDDLE EAST: Israel Militant

The uneasy border peace between
Israeli and Arab was broken last week by the sharpest armed clash since
Israel's 1956 invasion of the Sinai peninsula. It began with a
sporadic, five-day-long exchange of gunfire over the efforts of Arab
farmers to plow up disputed land in the demilitarized zone between
Israel and Syria, south of the Sea of Galilee. It became something else
when Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion got word at a Cabinet meeting that
an Israeli border policeman had been killed in the exchanges. He
ordered a reprisal attack of the kind that Israel used to launch...